Retail Prices

HC Deb 20 February 1989 vol 147 c455W

Mr. Gordon Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment in which years since 1959 the annual rate of increase in retail prices was lower than in the previous year.

Mr. Lee

In 1963, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1986.